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Top grandmasters demystify chessboard planning, giving you the practical, game-winning strategic techniques you could spend years gathering on your own.

"Amazing! The Chess Pocket Book contains all the essential knowledge!"-Boris Gulko, former U.S. and USSR champion

Learn chess from the best by studying the games of the latest world championship! The dramatic 2016 match defied all predictions. A top team of authors explains the strategies.

This right-to-the-point book by one of the game's foremost teacher-writing teams uses a breakthrough approach to teach chess fast.

Two world-class chess champions give readers the benefit of the visionary ideas of one of the brightest stars of the famed Soviet School of Chess.

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This chess classic has been praised by players and teachers alike.

"A true chess course of the sort that would be formally offered in a school."-Harold Dondis, Boston Globe

Chess Rules of Thumb gives you the winning principles of chess in clear, short statements. Three-time US Champion Lev Alburt and World Chess Hall of Fame Curator Al Lawrence have put together three centuries of insights from the masters. Fun to browse or to read from cover-to-cover, it's a book that all chess playersfrom beginners to grandmasterslwiull enjoy for a lifetime. Like life, chess has its rules. The difference that your parents probably didn't tell you about chess.Never cross the street before looking both ways.Never discuss portable explosives in the airport security line.Never overthrow the cut-off man.Never download email from someone you don't know.Never take the queen's knight pawn.Save hours of head-scratching and uncertainty in your own games and understand why the masters make the moves they do:The worst square for a White knight is b.2.With rook vs. two knights, exchanging queens is worth a pawn.Never capture the b.2 pawn with the queen.Rooks united on the seventh are blind pigs.The winner is the one who commits the next-to-last mistake.Backed up with diagrams and illustrations to help you remember key principles, a glossary of essential chess terms and a rundown on all major openings, Chess Rules of Thumb will improve your chess play. And it's great fun to read!Never buy a chess book that isn't fun!

Increase your skill and understanding of chess with the tactics that have produced unparalleled Russian grandmasters.

Thirty years ago, Roman Pelts was my chess teacher in Odessa, Russia. Later he assembled all knowledge essential for becoming a stronger player in this Comprehensive Chess Course. The techniques used in the Course proved to be a success for me as well as for generations of chessplayers in Russia and later in Canada and the United States. Now, the Course can help you learn chess the correct way to realize your chess potential fully. - Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. Champion

Three Days with Bobby Fischer and Other Chess Essays: How to Meet Champions & Choose Your Openings is a chess book you can sit back comfortably in your armchair and just read. Or, when you feel like getting the pieces out of the box and learning from some great games, tactics and strategiesthat's all here as well. Nearly everyone with an interest in chess shares the same two questions:What were the great champions like?How can I choose opening moves that give me a good game?Chess Hall-of-Famer and three-time US Champion Lev Alburt teams up with World Chess Hall of Fame Executive Director and Chess Journalist of the Year Award winner Al Lawrence to answer these questions and tell the intriguing, inspiring and sometimes downright bizarre behind-the-scenes stories of the chess greats and near-greats, and how, above all else, they were men of their times.Steinitz, who codified the rules of good playbefore going berserkLasker, the chessboard Freudian who wielded psychological weaponsCapablanca, dashingly handsome and to whom everything came easyAlekhine, a dsiplaced person who gave up drink to winUnder-rated Euwe, the last amateur to become world championBotvinnik, who refrained from sex to preserve his phosphorusSmyslov, an amateur opera singer who brought chess and artist' touchTal, whose gaze and red-hot sacrifices wilted even the toughest willsPetrosian, who through chess became a paradoxa Soviet bourgeoisSpassky, irreverent attacker who bowed to enigmatic Bobby FischerKarpov, the positional boa constrictor of the boardKasparov, the char8smatic boxer-chess-player who's still at the top.And many more great players of the past and present who never made it to the very top, but nevertheless left their indelible mark on the game.

Increase your skill and understanding of chess with the tactics that have produced unparalleled Russian grandmasters.